n. [ L. ab + E. articulation : cf. F. abarticulation. See Article. ] (Anat.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ablatio, fr. ablatus p. p. of auferre to carry away; ab + latus, p. p. of ferre carry: cf. F. ablation. See Tolerate. ] 1. A carrying or taking away; removal. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Extirpation. Dunglison. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Removing or destroying of a body tissue, especially by a surgical procedure. Dorland. [ AS ]

4. (Geol.) Wearing away; superficial waste, as of glacial ice or snow. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Aerospace) Wearing away of the outer layers of a protective shield or surface by the heat and aerodynamic forces caused by flying through the atmosphere at hypersonic speed, as during reentry from space; as, ablation of the heat shield during reentry. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. acceptilatio entry of a debt collected, acquittance, fr. p. p. of accipere (cf. Accept) + latio a carrying, fr. latus, p. p. of ferre to carry: cf. F. acceptilation. ] (Civil Law) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accumulatio; cf. F. accumulation. ] 1. The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accumulation of energy or
power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. --
An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adosculari, adosculatum, to kiss. See Osculate. ] (Biol.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. adulation, fr. L. adulatio, fr. adulari, adulatum, to flatter. ] Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. [ 1913 Webster ]

Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
With titles blown from adulation? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. -- Adulation, Flattery, Compliment. Men deal in compliments from a desire to please; they use flattery either from undue admiration, or a wish to gratify vanity; they practice adulation from sordid motives, and with a mingled spirit of falsehood and hypocrisy. Compliment may be a sincere expression of due respect and esteem, or it may be unmeaning; flattery is apt to become gross; adulation is always servile, and usually fulsome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. afflatus, p. p. of afflare to blow or breathe on; ad + flare to blow. ] A blowing or breathing on; inspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., agricolatio. ] Agriculture. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. alatus winged. ] The state of being winged. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ambulatio. ] The act of walking. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A making angular; angular formation. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. anhelatio, fr. anhelare to pant; an (perh. akin to E. on) + halare to breathe: cf. F. anhélation. ] Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. annihilation. ] 1. The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being annihilated. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Theol.) One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt. Nicholson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appellatio, fr. appellare: cf. F. appellation. See Appeal. ] 1. The act of appealing; appeal. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of calling by a name. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. [ 1913 Webster ]

They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Name. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Division into areolæ. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ariolatio, hariolatio, fr. hariolari to prophesy, fr. hariolus soothsayer. ] A soothsaying; a foretelling. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. articulation, fr. L. articulatio. ] 1. (Anat.) A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united (synarthrosis), or slightly movable, when they are united intervening substance (amphiarthrosis), or they may be more or less freely movable, when the articular surfaces are covered with synovial membranes, as in complete joints (diarthrosis). The last (diarthrosis) includes hinge joints, admitting motion in one plane only (ginglymus), ball and socket joints (enarthrosis), pivot and rotation joints, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods. (b) One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize. (c) One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The state of being jointed; connection of parts. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. assimilatio: cf. F. assimilation. ] 1. The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. assimulatio, equiv. to assimilatio. ] Assimilation. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. astipulatio. ] Stipulation; agreement. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + inoculation. ] (Med.) Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ LL. avolatio. ] The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A humming sound; a booming. [ 1913 Webster ]

To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. calculation, fr. L. calculatio; cf. OF. calcucation. ] 1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. “The calculation of eclipses.” Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An expectation based on circumstances. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lazy gossips of the port,
Abhorrent of a calculation crost,
Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cancellatio: cf. F. cancellation. ] 1. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capillatio the hair. ] A capillary blood vessel. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. capitulation, LL. capitulatio. ] 1. A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. carbunculatio. ] The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. castellation, fr. castellare, fr. L. castellum. See Castle. ] The act of making into a castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cavillation, L. cavillatio. ] Frivolous or sophistical objection. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate; as (Med.) the treatment of lead or mercury poisoning by adding a chelating agent to the blood. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. the process of forming a ring by forming one or more hydrogen bonds. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. circulatio: cf. F. circulation. ] 1. The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. [ 1913 Webster ]

This continual circulation of human things. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission. [ 1913 Webster ]

The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Physiol.) The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) (a) The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart. (b) A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. circumvolate. -volatum, to fly around; circum + volare to fly. ] The act of flying round. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coagulatio. ] 1. The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The substance or body formed by coagulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) The union or articulation of bones to form a joint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Colander. ] The act or process of straining or filtering. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. collacioun speech, conference, reflection, OF. collacion, F. collation, fr. L. collatio a bringing together, comparing, fr. collatum (used as the supine of conferre); col- + latium (used as the supine of ferre to bear), for tlatum. See Tolerate, v. t. ] 1. The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of conferring or bestowing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A conference. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Eccl. Law) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) (a) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity. (b) The report of the act made by the proper officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Scots Law) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Eccles.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

A collation of wine and sweetmeats. Whiston. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To partake of a collation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

May 20, 1658, I . . . collationed in Spring Garden. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Print.) One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. compellatio, fr. compellare to accost, fr. compellere. See Compel. ] Style of address or salutation; an appellation. “Metaphorical compellations.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He useth this endearing compellation, “My little children.” Bp. Beveridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by “Sire, ” which is nothing else but father. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. compilatio: cf. F. compilation. ] 1. The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. [ 1913 Webster ]

His [ Goldsmith's ] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. confabulatio. ] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conflatio. ] 1. A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a fusing together; merger of two or more things or ideas into one. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. congélation, L. congelatio. ] 1. The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The capillary tubes are obstructed either by outward compression or congelation of the fluid. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being congealed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is congealed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sugar plums . . . with a multitude of congelations in jellies of various colors. Taller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. congratulatio: cf. F. congratulation. ] The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

With infinite congratulations for our safe arrival. Dr. J. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]